The Long Run
- Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
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- “Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things y... See more
from The Road to Self-Renewal
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- But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun
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- I have come to the conclusion that whatever lies in the future, stays in the future.
from Be Successful Now by Lee A Smart
lisa added 6mo ago
- Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
from 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
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